[mythtvnz] Feedback requested on an article on Digital TV

[Nick Rout]

On 10/8/2006, "Craig Box" <craig@dubculture.co.nz> wrote:



>> 4. Not all Sky boxes have component - I agree it is a lot better, but

>> not as good as DVI/HDMI/VGA

>> 5. I don't know anyone who even realises you can feed a Sky box over

>> component, never mind actually doing it.

>

>I looked into this recently when a friend got a receiver that switches

>component.  According to geekzone forusm posts, you can get a SCART->3

>RCA cable and have your decoder output RGB.  However, most TVs want YUV

>component input? =20



more accurately they want YPbPr input, which according to wikipedia is

not precisely the same thing as YUV.



>Is there a more effective answer than $150 of active

>conversion along the way?



>From my reading of the same forums, "no"



>

>It got put in the 'too hard' basket, and we ended up getting

>SCART->svideo.  This had its own set of problems, because the cable at

>Jaycar was svideo->SCART, and SCART uses different pins for input and

>output.  Same with the cable at DSE (which wasn't even on their

>website).  The only answer was to buy a SCART adapter, which has a

>little "Input/Output" switch on top, and a svideo-svideo cable.

>



hmmm scart fart. For a "standard" there are suprprisingly many options

with scart.